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title = "Brain dump and emails"
date = "2020-08-23"
description = "Yet more ramblings."
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gnusocial.no
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The site will go down next week. I will write up a better entry later. I
have not decided if I will continue to use a microblog or not.

Email
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I found this [^1] repo I think after reading about it from reddit and
got the idea that maybe I should go back to just using email. Or rather,
imap and smtp. I\'ve had these bookmarked for a while.

Pop culture and personal life
=============================

After reading a graphic novel for Hilda and the Midnight Giant, I wanted
to lookup the name of one of the giant characters but I think I found
some trolls instead [^2]. It looks like someone has confused one
character for another even though they appear in the same frame at least
once and have different facial, chest, and hair appearances. I assume
the folks commenting have mostly only watched the TV rather than have
read/looked at the book. I didn\'t even post the comment.

I had some problems trying to archive it, so I will like to the original
[^3], which will change over time. I wonder if the wayback machine will
survive all of what has happened on Earth recently.

I absolutely detest pop culture arguments. Back when I used to edit for
Wikipedia, I got into a ruckus with someone regarding the Ridley
Scott/HR Giger alien. It turned into this huge thing which partially
lead to my decision to stop editing under my handle and later
altogether.

This also partially relates to why I rarely discuss personal news/topics
on my blog. I had a telephone stalker/harasser at one point who worked
in a building a few blocks from where I worked at the time. But I guess
one good thing about the pandemic stay-at-home means I probably won\'t
run into them any time soon.

Pop culture and scifi
=====================

I read/watch lots of commentary online regarding older scifi that have
had remakes, reboots, remarketings over the last several years. I think
some of them have some good points when it comes to some universe that
suddenly starts making a direct commentary about a current event in the
world. But I dislike the opinions that attempt to make some kind of
causal connection between being woke and bad writing.

PS: Using facebook/instagram or even twitter counters wokeness. Use the
fediverse.

COVID-19
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I decided that since Donald Trump wants to assign blame to call the
virus so many slurs, that I would do something about that with a little
bit of satire. Though, so far I\'ve only registered the tronald19.com
domain.

References
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[^1]: <https://github.com/trstringer/pymail/blob/master/pymail.py>

[^2]: <https://web.archive.org/web/20200824061035/https://hildatheseries.fandom.com/wiki/Valfreyja>

[^3]: <https://hildatheseries.fandom.com/wiki/Valfreyja>
